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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was just forced by a court to reveal the details of its latest humiliating legal defeat. The implications of this could affect thousands of claimants.

The DWP: an admission of guilt?

On Monday 30 July, the DWP said it was going to compensate two claimants who took it to court and partly won. The men, known as TP and AR, brought the case against the DWP after it left them financially worse off due to transferral onto Universal Credit.